Re: skipping pg_log in basebackup (was Re: pg_basebackup and pg_stat_tmp directory)

From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mitsumasa KONDO <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomáš Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: skipping pg_log in basebackup (was Re: pg_basebackup and pg_stat_tmp directory)
Date: 2015-06-12 07:05:25
Message-ID: 20150612070525.GA12515@toroid.org
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At 2015-06-11 14:38:03 +0900, Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, I don't like the idea of doing (3) by adding
> > command line arguments to pg_basebackup and adding a new option to
> > the command. I don't think that level of "flexibility" is justified;
> > it would also make it easier to end up with a broken base backup (by
> > inadvertently excluding more than you meant to).
>
> Maybe a combination of (2) and part of (3). In absence of any command
> line argument, the behavior is (2), to exclude. Provide an option to
> *include* it (-S/--serverlog).

I don't like that idea any more than having the command-line argument to
exclude pg_log. (And people who store torrented files in PGDATA may like
it even less.)

-- Abhijit

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